Yorkshire Bitter

No blog about living in the arse end of Yorkshire would be complete without mentioning the knob-end of Yorkshire, John ‘Two Shags’ Prescott.
The “Honourable Member” (snigger) for Hull East has been playing away from home, it seems. I can’t say that the current tittle-tattle about this tongue-tied bloater’s sex life really interests me that much […]

Hearing from Sin made me think about where to take people if I have an American friend staying over. There is York, of course, but closer to home there’s Selby Abbey, which has the “Washington window” with the coat of arms of George Washington’s ancestors and is said to have inspired the design for the […]

Very nice to hear from Sin, one of my good friends in New Orleans. As everyone knows unless they’ve spent the last year in the Big Brother house, it’s been a rough old year for residents of the Big Easy.
This year’s hurricane season is coming up and I can’t really blame her for wanting to […]

To most people who haven’t actually seen the movie, Cabaret is simply a musical in which Liza Minnelli sings That Song.
Of course there’s a lot more to it than that. Set in decadent Berlin just before the Nazis swept into power, there are all the burlesque song and dance routines that you might expect. But […]

Hi. If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you might have noticed it’s changed somewhat. I’ve just made a long-overdue transition from Blogger to WordPress.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to transfer the old look across - but please bear with me while I give the place a lick of paint and play with some of […]

It’s probably hard to imagine that there were such things as schools when I was a kid, but I remember being told in class that Britain had the finest system of justice in the world. But then again the same teacher put someone on detention for saying Father Christmas wasn’t real.
Around that time, a busy […]

I’m depressed. Every time I look at my payslip, I see all these deductions for tax and national insurance. Please, doctor, can you stop the bleeding of my money as it depresses me to think of it being spent on Tanya Bainbridge when people can’t get cancer treatment or get turned away from A&E.
Tanya, as […]

So Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are now the proud parents of little Suri. And he was only joking about eating the placenta, apparently.
The Times is also careful to point out that there was no truth in earlier media reports that he insisted his wife and mother of his child should endure labour without painkillers […]